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Four rare political tracts View picture(s) 1 BEN SADDI, Nathan (= Robert DODSLEY). Chronique des rois d'Angleterre, ecrite en Anglois selon le stile des anciens historiens Juifs. London (i.e. Amsterdam), Th. Cooper, 1743. 8vo. Contemporary full caf with pasted titles and former shelfmark on spine. Title in red & black with engraved vignette, head- and endpieces. 144 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  French  Militaria  Nobility  Politics  Religion  Royalty  Treatises  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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On the national debt of England, by an intimate of Diderot View picture(s) 2 CASAUX, Charles, marquis de. Thoughts on the mechanism of societies. London, T. Spilsbury for G.G.J. and J. Robinson, W. Richardson & J. Debrett, 1786. 8vo. Contemporary calf, gilt coat of arms of The society of the writers to the Signet on sides, title on red morocco label on spine, decorated binding edges, blue speckled edges. XIX, (1 blank), 411 (5 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Economy  Politics  Trade  Treatises  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Three medical treatises by a famous 16th-century physician on pediatrics, toxicology and on Hippocrates View picture(s) 3 MERCURIALE, Hieronymus. De morbis puerorum. Item de venenis et morbis venenosis. Quibus adiuncta est Censura Hippocratea. Basilae, Ex off. Pernea per Conrad. Waldkirch, 1584. Three works in one vol. 8vo. Contemporary blind-stamped three-quarter pigskin, with monogram D*L*H and date 1611, written on front cover, ribbed spine with paper title-label lettered in ink. With woodcut printer's device on general title, vignettes on the separate titles of second and third work, woodcut initials, and head- and tail-pieces in text. (8), 356, (2 blank); (8), 134, (2 blank); (2), 24, (40) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Medicine  Philology  Treatises  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Italian juridical manual on (the law of) inheritance and making testaments View picture(s) 4 VALLE, Rolandus a. Tractatus de inventarii confectione. Nunc primum in Germania quam emendatissimè editus, & ad commodiorem lectoris usum, characterum diversitate distinctus. Accedunt summaria & index locupletissimus. Cologne, Ant. Hierat, 1599. 8vo. Contemporary overlapping vellum, red sprinkled edges. With woodcut printer's device on title, and woodcut initials in text. (48; last 5 blank), 304 pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 16th Century  Italy  Treatises  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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From the library of the Dukes of Aremberg: essays by pamphleteer of the Enlightenment View picture(s) 5 [COYER, Gabriel-Francois]. Bagatelles morales. ...... ridentem dicere verum / Quid vetat? ....... Horat. London (for sale in Paris with Duchesne), (Paul Vaillant?), 1754. 12mo. Contemporary sheepskin with gilt coat-of-arms of the Dukes of Aremberg on both sides, spine gilt in compartments with red title-label lettered in gold. With woodcut vignette on title and woodcut head-pieces. 349 (=249) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 18th Century  Enlightenment  France  Jesuits  Treatises  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Exceptionally rare collection of 8 treatises on the cultivation of sugar cane, printed in Jamaica View picture(s) 6 [JAMAICA - SUGAR]. Eight practical treatises on the cultivation of the sugar cane, written in consequence of his excellency the Earl of Elgin's offer of a prize of one hundred pounds in the latter part of 1842. Jamaica (Kingston), Jordon & Osborn, 1843. 8vo. Original half green cloth with marbled boards. With four lithographed plates. (2), III, (1), 185, (1) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  Agriculture & Husbandry  English  Jamaica  Treatises  West Indies  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Rare treatise on the incorporation of Porte-Viejo in the Republica Colombia in 1821 View picture(s) 7 [SOUTH AMERICA]. Exposicion que hase el canton provincia de Porte-Viejo, de los motivos legales y politicos que há tenido para declararse unanimemente. Incorporarda a la Republica de Colombia segun la Ley fundamental del estado dictada por el Congreso general, y sancionada por el voto de los pueblos. Lima, imprenta de San Jacinto, (1821). 8vo. Bound. 22, (2) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 19th Century  America [South]  Peru  Politics  Spain  Treatises  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Against a Truce with Spain in 1587; one of the earliest publications from the period of Dutch independence to mention the New World View picture(s) 8 [VERHEYDEN, Willem]. Nootelijcke consideratien die alle goede liefhebbers des Vaderlants behooren rijpelijck te overwegen, opten voorgeslagen Tractate van peys met den Spaengiaerden. No place & name, 1587 (Typ. Bat.: = Middelburg, Richard Schilders, after 1600?). 4to. Later wrappers. Woodcut ornament on title. (20) pp. Collation: A-B4, C2. Full description >> Related Subjects: Americana  History  Pamphlets  Politics  Spain  Treatises  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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Justifying the Dutch wars against Philip of Spain View picture(s) 9 [VERHEYDEN, Willem]. Oratie, of uutspraecke van het recht der Nederlandtsche oorloge teghen Philippum Coningh van Spaengien, aen de aledermaghtighste ende doorluchtighste vorsten van Kerstenrijck, van eenen Nederlandsche edelman ghedaen. In Nederlandsche ghetrouwelick vertalet. Amsterdam, Michiel Colijn, 1608. 4to. Woodcut Dutch lion in coronet on title. (2), 48, (2 blank) pp. Full description >> Related Subjects: 17th Century  History  Militaria  Pamphlets  Spain  Treatises  Add to Shopping cart E-mail a Friend

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